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Belive. By by William Shatner(Yes Captain Kirk) and Micheal Tobias.

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Mr. McGee, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

"the human stain" by philip roth, but it´s a slow read. i can hardly wait to either get back to the aubrey/maturin series or to "quicksilver" by stephenson.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

Mainly "The Valley of Horses" by Jean M. Auel, but also "Winter's Heart" by Robert Jordan (for the third time), "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett and "The Design of Everyday Things" by Donald A. Norman. I think I'm halfway through a book by Tom Clancy somewhere as well.

Northern Lights, by Philip Pullman....(at last) This has been on my shelf waaaayyy too long...

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The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon"

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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Best Books on the Face of the Earth (even DNA's works come in second)


Another name for The Golden Compass, the first book in the aforementioned 'His Dark Materials Trilogy', the best books on the face of the earth (even DNA's work comes in second)

Hmm....good so far, certainly (I'm half way through)...not sure it has the potential to knock Catch-22 off the top of my list.

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The drug purportedly affected an area of the brain called "Shatner's Bassoon"

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.
I caved in and bought it.
And I still have stacks of unread books.
I should just accept it.
It'll never change.

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"Oh I'm a meat eater too. I love meat. Expecially meat with melted cheese." ... number 302079
(... don't piss us off)

I'm well under way in my semi-annual rereading of The Lord of the Rings. This time with fresh new images from the movie getting in the way of my personal inner images of old. It's strange.

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"Hey, didja hear that? The monkey spoke! Pure history, man, a talking monkey!" --You know who

His Dark Materials are still the best...by the way, u might try reading the other 15 books written by Philip Pullman as well

Well, I stole it to read on this trip and finished it today.
I must admit I enjoyed it. For a girly "love and romance" thing it was very good and had a nice angle on the time travel bit.
Only downside is too much of what DNA wrote about it SLATFATF:
"It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't
actually get you anywhere. You don't, in short, want to know."

Book could have been about 2/3rds the length and still as enjoyable.

Recommended.

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D.
The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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shame on you! this is a family friendly site!



(have you gotten to the good stuff yet? i have read that book when i was quite a bit young for it, but boy, was it an education...
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i have just finished "howl´s moving castle" by dianna whynne jones (spelling?), as a preparation for the next miyazaki movie ... really enjoyable!

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

I just finished reading Charlotte's Web by EB White. It's a nice little book which is currently being adapted for film with a screenplay by Karey Kirkpatrick and Susannah Grant.

I've just been supplying the movies designers with images of spider egg sacs as they are keen for Charlotte's magnum opus to look correct.

i´ve read that book as a child and loved it. in a way, it helped me to overcome my arachnophobia... :D
cried at the end. few books (or movies) manage that, even when i was still small.
so i gather it will be a "real" movie, not animated? i´m glad they are doing some research to make it look authentic - but what is your connection to spiders, darth?

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

I'm an amateur arachnologist, here is my website with lots of photographs of spiders and things. I often get emails from various places asking for use of my pictures or advice on various things. I always try to be as useful as possible even if they don't pay me.

The film is live-action but with the non-human characters computer animated. The only human cast so far is Dakota Fanning who will be playing Fern (the little girl who cared for Wilbur when he was a piglet).

I'm in the process of reading Order of the Phoenix; Life, the Universe and Everything; The Complete Peanuts, Volume 2: 1953-1954; and America (the book).

What can I say, I'm all over the place.

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So long...etc.

I'm still reading 'The Time Traveler's Wife' ... what can I say? I'm slow.

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"Oh I'm a meat eater too. I love meat. Expecially meat with melted cheese." ... number 302079
(... don't piss us off)

Ser: I love HP (no numbnuts, not Hewlett Packard), and OotP is brillz

I'm currently reading "the Shadow rising", Aka the fourth book in the Wheel of Time-series (number four of eleven, and counting)

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Carpe aleae

It is a very fat book as I mentioned before.
How far have you got? Shall I tell you what happens in the end or rather the begining.... or is it the middle. Confusing.

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D.
The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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No! Don't tell me a thing. I'm a little over 1/3 of the way through - when Henry joins Clare's family for Christmas for the first (?) time. I'm quite enjoying this book. For some reason the whole 'time out of sync' relationship they share reminds me of online relationships where people are more out of place than out of time.

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"Oh I'm a meat eater too. I love meat. Expecially meat with melted cheese." ... number 302079
(... don't piss us off)

The Bourne Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum

There are only ten books in the main series so far. The "eleventh" book is a prequel. But you knew that ;)

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"Hey, didja hear that? The monkey spoke! Pure history, man, a talking monkey!" --You know who

Yeah, but it still makes a total of eleven, and there's another coming soon according to rumor

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Carpe aleae

since christmas is almost here, im reading a very appropriate book for the season, simply called: "murder for christmas" by agatha christie. don't you just loooove family get-togethers??

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

Just finished "Jaywalking with the Irish" by David Monagan (semi-funny travel journal type book) and re-read h2g2 (first four books) for the umpteenth time...currently working on "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason.

I'm reading The Runes of the Earth by Stephen R. Donaldson. It's the first book in the Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant that just came.

I must say that the Covenant books were pretty big for me when I was a teenager, and it is weird that a new book has come out. It's not too shabby so far. I just don't know how he is going to answer the whole Covenant thing. And I recently heard announced that Revelstone Entertainment just bought the rights to doing the First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant. I have no idea how they are going to crack that nut.

It's strange that my friends and I are still talking about the same stuff we talked about then in the present tense: Covenant, LOTR, Hitchhiker's Guide, Star Wars. Wow.

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It's terrible, but I guess songs are just interesting things to do with the air.
-Tom Waits

I've yet to start on the Second Chronicles - maybe I'll have to nudge them closer to the top of my stack. Just started reading Michael Crichton's State of Fear.

I'm now reading "Winter's Heart" by Robert Jordan and "The Mammoth Hunters" by Jean M. Auel. I got that last one from my brother for christmas. I'm also reading a biography about Gunnar Sønsteby, the most decorated war hero in Norway, possibly the most decorated in the whole of Europe (according to my dad). More information about him here: http://www.no24.no/?t=english

His own book is available in english: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/de ... 156980141X

I've read it many times, ever since I was 11 or 12 years old. WWII is one of my great addictions.

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"Hey, didja hear that? The monkey spoke! Pure history, man, a talking monkey!" --You know who

im re-reading h2g2 :D

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

slaughter house 5 by kurt vonnegut

then, for commarts class...

i have to read the pearl by john steinbeck


(2 german authors in one week..whew)

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

...I liked that Vonnegut a lot...

I'm in the middle of the new English translation of Gilgamesh (you'd be surprised by the naughty bits in a thousands year old poem)...and just bought "Last Chance to See" by our beloved DNA...probably start on it this weekend...

Neverwhere
by neil gaiman
again

(and did you mean pterry as in Peewee's pterry?)

Me like that one



Ahem, No
Pratchett, Terry

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D.
The Thirteenth Triskaidekaphobe
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Just started reading "Lord of the Rings" after finishing "The Hobbit". Most people should read "The Hobbit" before "Lord of the rings".

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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.

-H.L. Mencken


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The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000: The Book by Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner (as told to each other)

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"Madness is the first sign of dandruff." - Dr. John "Winston O'Boogie" Lennon

"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in imaginary violence." - Paul Rudd in Role Models

Q: How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Fish.

i hate to disappoint you, but neither vonnegut nor steinbeck are german. but maybe you were joking? if, on the other hand, you want to read a german author, how about starting big and reading günther grass "the tin drum"? it´s a very strange story about a boy who refuses to grow up and terrorizes his neighbourhood with his special ability: with his screams he can pierce glass! all this takes place during the time of the rise of the fascism. actually the book is about a lot of other things and definitely suggested to mature readers, but i´ve always been an advocate for reading books NOT officially suited to your age - in both directions.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

yep. and if they are not hooked already, they should also skip "concerning hobbits" when they read LOTR for the first time. i know quite a bit of people who were put off by that ("booring!").

otherwise...
i´ve finished "the surgeon´s mate" and will hopefully start on the next aubrey/maturin book tomorrow.

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown and a Hungarian book about the Dragon Society (it has something to do with Dracula) wich was written by a guy, whom I know very well. (Yes! I got to mention that. Sorry, I'm uppish.)

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Sir Humphrey: With Trident we could obliterate the whole of Eastern Europe.
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You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. - Bertram Wooster, The Code of the Woosters

oohhh...i love that book (but it's not as exciting as the Da Vinci Code) because they speak Italian and German (both i know rather well), not that usual French thing...

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

well...actually, Vonnegut is a 4th generation German-American, and i think that Steinbeck's last name has a german root...or whatever...

yes, i've heard of "The Tin Drum", didn't they made that as a movie? and as i heard, it is pretty good... oh yeah, i just saw this information on my Deutsch Aktuelles 1 book....ehehehehe

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guess it all depends how you define people´s origins. it´s not that important anyway, not if you don´t want to start a literary discussion on the relation between text and biography...

i´ve never read vonnegut, but i immensly enjoy steinbeck, although i don´t know "pearl".
yes, "the tin drum" is also a very good movie; it doesn´t tell the last part of the book, but that´s okay, it works anyway. but that´s actually a rather remote classic today. i´d like to recommend you a contemporaray german author, but can´t think of any right now. oh, but since we are on a scifi/fantasy-related site here, i´m sure you´ve heard of "the neverending story"? it was a movie, too, but the book was written by michael ende, a german. very good book, much better and more fantstic than the movie which i didn´t like, especially the ending (first part, i didn´t bother to see the others). so if you want to lose yourself in a book, try to find that one. or "momo" by the same author, also wonderful. i checked, they have them on amazon at least.

are you studying german, btw?

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)

nnaaahhhh.... im not in the mood to have a literary discussion (or because im afraid that i don't have enough things to talk about)...

yes, i've heard of "neverending story" wasn't it animated?? if yes, i loved that movie when i was a kid...

i am sudying german, and we have a Vokab quiz today, but instead of studying... here i am!!


in die Ferien fahren means to go on vacation

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WWJD... for a Klondike bar?

yep, that´s right! and don´t i wish i was!

wow, i´m impressed that you actually learn german. it´s not the most widely used language and i imagine it must be tough to learn for an american what with all the cases and articles!

neverending story wasn´t animated (at least not the first three movies, i think), but packed with 80ies sfx, that is, not that good-looking. now that is a movie where i would like to see a new version of!

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"The human gene pool needs more lifeguards!
Either that or stronger chlorination...." (Pitbull)